Unix Administrator Contracts in England

Unix Administrator
UK > England

The median Unix Administrator daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 537 632
Rank change year-on-year +61 +95 +139
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Administrator 9 5 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.013% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.014% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 13
10th Percentile £395 £375 £343
25th Percentile £425 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £494 £475 £544
90th Percentile £500 - £633
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +40.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Unix Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Unix Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Unix Administrator in England

Unix Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix Administrator in England.

Daily rate trend for Unix Administrator in England

Unix Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix Administrator in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix Administrator in England

Unix Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix Administrator in England.

Hourly rate trend for Unix Administrator in England

Unix Administrator
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 4 £463 -
West Midlands - 4 £463 -
South East +46 2 £488 +8.33%
London - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £350 -
North of England - 1 £350 -
Unix Administrator
UK

Unix Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Unix Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Unix Administrator in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Unix
2 7 (77.78%) AIX
3 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
3 4 (44.44%) VMware
3 4 (44.44%) Storage Management
4 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (33.33%) Solaris
4 3 (33.33%) IBM
4 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 3 (33.33%) ITIL
4 3 (33.33%) Bash
4 3 (33.33%) Puppet
4 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (33.33%) Progress Chef
4 3 (33.33%) Ansible
4 3 (33.33%) Docker
4 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 2 (22.22%) Private Cloud
5 2 (22.22%) Oracle ZFS
5 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database
5 2 (22.22%) Redis
5 2 (22.22%) Git
5 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
5 2 (22.22%) Korn
5 2 (22.22%) Statistics
5 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
5 2 (22.22%) Oracle
5 2 (22.22%) Tivoli
5 2 (22.22%) Tivoli Storage Manager

Unix Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
2 1 (11.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database
1 2 (22.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Unix
2 7 (77.78%) AIX
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (33.33%) Solaris
4 2 (22.22%) CentOS
4 2 (22.22%) HPUX
4 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Storage Management
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (22.22%) Statistics
4 1 (11.11%) B2B
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Key Management
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Server Management
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Korn
4 1 (11.11%) ActionScript
4 1 (11.11%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (11.11%) Perl
4 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) IBM Certification
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 3 (33.33%) Puppet
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle ZFS
2 2 (22.22%) Tivoli
2 2 (22.22%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Nagios
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) IBM
2 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (11.11%) Splunk